THESE TEARS I WEEP! (a lamentation for Nigeria by Linus Okechukwu)
I.
These tears I weep… I weep not for myself,
But for what my eyes have seen,
And what my ears in awe heard –
So great that I cannot but weep.
But lost in sorrow, I must speak. II.
These tears I weep… I weep not for myself,
But for our kith and kin slain –
Whose hopes lay in the ground,
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